New Satellite Pro U400-12y is very slow

Just bought Satellite Pro U400-12y with Vista Business pre-installed (1 GB preinstalled memory).
However, the startup is very slow and actually the computer seems to work in a time warp.

Any ideas? Is there a fundamental problem?

Yes, I have an idea.

I think that the high amount of background processes affect the performance of laptops.
He should know that the U400 supports many different features and these features are controlled by different applications.

If you want you can start the msconfig and disable some unnecessary and unimportant process. Take a look in the Startup tab.

In addition, I recommend to disable and remove the preinstalled software called Tempro.

I did it on my system, and now it runs much faster

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